15 September 2019

Davis Cup Group I and Group II results

The ITF has announced the results from the Group I and Group II ties taking place on 13-15 September. Nineteen ties took place this weekend.

The 12 Group I winning nations will contest the Davis Cup by Rakuten Qualifiers on March 2020, while the losers will play in the new World Group I Play-offs alongside the 12 winners of Group II ties. The weekend’s results mean that, to date, 10 nations – , , Brazil, , Ecuador, Korea Republic, , Sweden, Uruguay and – have secured a place in March’s Qualifiers.

Hungary’s Europe/Africa Group I tie with was suspended due to bad light with Attila Balazs of Hungary leading Ilya Marchenko 64 5-5 in the decisive fifth match. The tie will be completed on Monday. The remaining Group I tie between Pakistan and India is scheduled to take place in November.

Meanwhile, eight Group II ties were completed this weekend, with , Chinese Taipei, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, South Africa and Turkey all securing a place in next year’s World Group I Play- offs.

In addition to the Group I and Group II ties, three regional group events were held this week, with all three concluding on Saturday. In Europe Group III four teams (, Greece, Latvia and Poland) have gained promotion to March’s World Group II Play-offs, where they will be joined by Kenya and Tunisia, who were victorious in Africa Group III. In Asia/Oceania Group IV, Jordan and Pacific Oceania won promotion to Group III.

Davis Cup is the World Cup of . It is the largest annual international team competition in sport, with 133 nations entered in 2019. The competition is 119 years old, having been founded in 1900.

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EUROPE/AFRICA GROUP I

CZECH REPUBLIC defeated BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 3-2 Venue: Arena Zenica, Zenica, BIH (hard - indoor) Jonas Forejtek (CZE) d. Mirza Basic (BIH) 75 64 Jiri Vesely (CZE) d. Tomislav Brkic (BIH) 62 76(4) Mirza Basic/Tomislav Brkic (BIH) d. Jiri Lehecka/Jiri Vesely (CZE) 76(2) 63 Mirza Basic (BIH) d. Jiri Vesely (CZE) 76(7) 63 Jonas Forejtek (CZE) d. Tomislav Brkic (BIH) 61 67(7) 61

SWEDEN defeated 3-1 Venue: Kungliga Tennishallen, Stockholm, SWE (hard - indoor) Mikael Ymer (SWE) d. (ISR) 63 75 (SWE) d. (ISR) 76(6) 60 / (ISR) d. Markus Eriksson/ (SWE) 60 62 Mikael Ymer (SWE) d. Daniel Cukierman (ISR) 64 63 Markus Eriksson (SWE) v Edan Leshem (ISR) – not played

AUSTRIA defeated 3-2 Venue: Espoo Metro Areena, Espoo, FIN (hard - indoor) (AUT) d. Patrik Niklas-Salminen (FIN) 63 64 (FIN) d. (AUT) 63 64 Oliver Marach/Jurgen Melzer (AUT) d. /Emil Ruusuvuori (FIN) 76(5) 62 Emil Ruusuvuori (FIN) d. Dominic Thiem (AUT) 63 62 (AUT) d. Haari Heliovaara (FIN) 36 63 76(5)

HUNGARY level with UKRAINE 2-2 Venue: Sport11 Sports, Leisure and Event Center, Budapest, HUN (clay - outdoor) (UKR) d. Attila Balazs (HUN) 64 63 Marton Fucsovics (HUN) d. (UKR) 63 62 Attila Balazs/Marton Fucsovics (HUN) d. /Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) 76(1) 36 63 Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) d. Marton Fucsovics (HUN) 57 63 76(3) Attila Balazs (HUN) v Illya Marchenko (UKR) – to be completed, Balazs leads 64 5-5

SLOVAKIA defeated 3-1 Venue: AXA Arena NTC, , SVK (clay - outdoor) (SUI) d. Martin Klizan (SVK) 62 76(7) (SVK) d. (SUI) 62 46 75 Filip Polasek/ (SVK) d. Jerome Kym/Henri Laaksonen (SUI) 63 63 (SVK) d. Henri Laaksonen (SUI) 61 61 Andrej Martin (SVK) v Sandro Ehrat (SUI) – not played

BELARUS defeated 3-2 Venue: Republic Olympic Tennis Center, Minsk, BLR (hard - indoor) Joao Sousa (POR) d. (BLR) 46 61 62 (BLR) d. Joao Domingues (POR) 62 63 Joao Sousa/ (POR) d. Ilya Ivashka/Andrei Vasilevski (BLR) 63 76(5) Egor Gerasimov (BLR) d. Joao Sousa (POR) 76(3) 64 Ilya Ivashka (BLR) d. Pedro Sousa (POR) 64 76(4)

ASIA/OCEANIA GROUP I

UZBEKISTAN defeated LEBANON 3-2 Venue: Automobile and Touring Club of Lebanon (ATCL), Jounieh, LBN (clay - outdoor) (UZB) d. Hady Habib (LBN) 64 64 (LBN) d. Khumoyun Sultanov (UZB) 26 63 75 Sanjar Fayziev/ (UZB) d. Benjamin Hassan/ (LBN) 62 57 63 Benjamin Hassan (LBN) d. Sanjar Fayziev (UZB) 26 63 64 Jurabek Karimov (UZB) d. Hady Habib (LBN) 64 16 61

KOREA, REP. defeated , P.R. 3-1 Venue: Guiyang Olympic Sports Center Tennis Stadium, Guiyang, CHN (hard - indoor) Soonwoo Kwon (KOR) d. Zhizhen Zhang (CHN) 76(4) 67(4) 75 Ji Sung Nam (KOR) d. Zhe Li (CHN) 76(1) 76(0) Mao-Xin Gong/Ze Zhang (CHN) d. Ji Sung Nam/Min-Kyu Song (KOR) 76(6) 76(5) Soonwoo Kwon (KOR) d. Yai Ban (CHN) 63 64 Zhizhen Zhang (CHN) v Ji Sung Nam (KOR) – not played

AMERICAS GROUP I

BRAZIL defeated BARBADOS 3-1 Venue: Sociedade Recreativa Mampituba, Criciuma, BRA (clay - outdoor) (BAR) d. Joao Menezes (BRA) 36 64 62 (BRA) d. Haydn Lewis (BAR) 62 62 / (BRA) d. Darian King/Haydn Lewis (BAR) 76(4) 75 Thiago Monteiro (BRA) d. Darian King (BAR) 64 76(6) Joao Menezes (BRA) v Haydn Lewis (BAR) – not played

ECUADOR defeated 4-0 Venue: Doral Park Country Club, Doral, USA (hard - outdoor) Emilio Gomez (ECU) d. Juan Lugo (VEN) 61 60 (ECU) d. Luis David Martinez (VEN) 63 63 / (ECU) d. Luis David Martinez/ (VEN) 64 64 Antonio Cayetano March (ECU) d. Luis David Martinez (VEN) 67(3) 75 10-4 Juan Lugo (VEN) v Roberto Quiroz (ECU) – not played

URUGUAY defeated DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 3-1 Venue: Carrasco Lawn Tennis Club, Montevideo, URU (clay - outdoor) (URU) d. (DOM) 61 64 Jose Hernandez-Fernandez (DOM) d. Martin Cuevas (URU) 61 76(7) Martin Cuevas/Pablo Cuevas (URU) d. Victor Estrella Burgos/ (DOM) 64 63 Pablo Cuevas (URU) d. Jose Hernandez-Fernandez (DOM) 75 60 Martin Cuevas (URU) v Roberto Cid Subervi (DOM) – not played

EUROPE/AFRICA GROUP II

SOUTH AFRICA defeated 4-1 Venue: Kelvin Grove Club, , RSA (hard - outdoor) (RSA) d. (BUL) 64 67(3) 63 (BUL) d. (RSA) 75 75 /Ruan Roelofse (RSA) d. /Alexandar Lazarov (BUL) 63 62 Lloyd Harris (RSA) d. Dimitar Kuzmanov (BUL) 63 76(3) Philip Henning (RSA) d. Gabriel Donev (BUL) 62 63

TURKEY defeated DENMARK 3-2 Venue: Vejlby-Risskov Hallen, Risskov (Aarhus), DEN (hard - indoor) Cem Ilkel (TUR) d. Christian Sigsgaard (DEN) 76(4) 67(2) 62 Altug Celikbilek (TUR) d. Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune (DEN) 64 16 76(5) Johannes Ingildsen/ (DEN) d. Sarp Agabigun/Altug Celikbilek (TUR) 67(1) 63 64 Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune (DEN) d. Cem Ilkel (TUR) 76(4) 64 Altug Celikbilek (TUR) d. Christian Sigsgaard (DEN) 61 76(5)

SLOVENIA defeated 3-1 Venue: El Gezera Sporting Club, , EGY (clay - outdoor) Aljaz Bedene (SLO) d. Karim-Mohamed Maamoun (EGY) 75 4-1 ret. (EGY) d. Blaz Rola (SLO) 64 16 76(4) Aljaz Bedene/Blaz Rola (SLO) d. /Mohamed Safwat (EGY) 75 63 Aljaz Bedene (SLO) d. Mohamed Safwat (EGY) 75 75 Karim-Mohamed Maamoun (EGY) v Blaz Rola (SLO) – not played

NORWAY defeated 3-1 Venue: Njaard Tennis klubb, , NOR (clay - outdoor) (GEO) d. (NOR) 75 64 (NOR) d. George Tsivadze (GEO) 61 60 Viktor Durasovic/Casper Ruud (NOR) d. /Aleksandre Metreveli (GEO) 64 63 Casper Ruud (NOR) d. Aleksandre Metreveli (GEO) 63 62 Viktor Durasovic (NOR) v George Tsivadze (GEO) – not played

ASIA/OCEANIA GROUP II

NEW ZEALAND defeated INDONESIA 3-1 Venue: Gelora Bung Karno Tennis Stadium, , INA (hard - outdoor) Ajeet Rai (NZL) d. M Rifki Fitriadi (INA) 76(7) 63 Rhett Purcell (NZL) d. David Agung Susanto (INA) 36 64 60 / (NZL) d. Antony Susanto/David Agung Susanto (INA) 60 62 Ari Fahresi (INA) d. Ajeet Rai (NZL) 63 26 10-7 M Rifki Fitriadi (INA) v Rhett Purcell (NZL) – not played

CHINESE TAIPEI defeated HONG KONG, CHINA 4-0 Venue: Victoria Park Tennis Stadium, Hong Kong, HKG (hard - outdoor) (TPE) d. Chak Lam Coleman Wong (HKG) 61 62 Tung-Lin Wu (TPE) d. Pak Long Yeung (HKG) 63 62 Cheng-Peng Hsieh/Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) d. Hong Kit Wong/Pak Long Yeung (HKG) 63 62 Chun-Tsin Tseng (TPE) d. Wai Yu Kai (HKG) 62 75 Chak Lam Coleman Wong (HKG) v Tung-Lin Wu (TPE) – not played

AMERICAS GROUP II

MEXICO defeated PARAGUAY 4-1 Venue: Club Internacional de Tenis, Asuncion, PAR (clay - outdoor) Manuel Sanchez (MEX) d. Ayed Zatar (PAR) 63 62 Lucas Gomez (MEX) d. Juan Borba (PAR) 64 64 Juan Borba/Ayed Zatar (PAR) d. Gonzalez/Miguel-Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) 16 63 64 Lucas Gomez (MEX) d. Ayed Zatar (PAR) 64 64 Manuel Sanchez (MEX) d. Adolfo Vallejo (PAR) 63 62

BOLIVIA defeated GUATEMALA 3-2 Venue: Federacion Nacional de Tenis, Guatemala, GUA (hard - outdoor) (BOL) d. Sebastian Dominguez (GUA) 61 60 Wilfredo Gonzalez (GUA) d. (BOL) 63 36 63 Stefan Emilio Gonzalez/Wilfredo Gonzalez (GUA) d. Juan Carlos Manuel Aguilar/Hugo Dellien (BOL) 64 64 Hugo Dellien (BOL) d. Wilfredo Gonzalez (GUA) 62 75 Federico Zeballos (BOL) d. Franz Luna Lavidalie (GUA) 64 64

AFRICA GROUP III Venue: Nairobi Club, Nairobi, KEN (clay - outdoor)

KENYA and TUNISIA advance to the 2020 World Group II Play-offs.

NAMIBIA and NIGERIA are relegated to 2020 Africa Group IV.

EUROPE GROUP III Venue: TATOI Club, Athens, GRE (clay - outdoor)

ESTONIA, GREECE, LATVIA and POLAND advance to the 2020 World Group II Play-offs.

MONTENEGRO and NORTH MACEDONIA are relegated to 2020 Europe Group IV.

ASIA/OCEANIA GROUP IV Venue: Jordan Tennis Federation, Amman, JOR (hard - outdoor)

JORDAN and PACIFIC OCEANIA are promoted to 2020 Asia/Oceania Group III.

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